Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The determinants of church attendance and religious human capital in Germany: Evidence from panel data

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure of the data, we are able to control for unobservable heterogeneity by applying a random-effects ...

The impact of introducing social security contributions on "marginal employment" on the labour supply of married women in Germany

Do Catholic women with non-smoking husbands earn less in a second job? - assorted topics in empirical labor economics (Dissertation)

Does religion influence the labor supply of married women in Germany?

Up in the Skies? The Relationship between Body Height and Earnings in Germany

Height and weight in Germany, evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel, 2002

This paper examines the socio-economic variation in height and weight using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Results reinforce previous research insofar as height is associated with socio-economic differences. For example, a low maternal schooling level or a lower position in the income distribution is negatively correlated with the height of West Germans. Furthermore, there is a west–east ...

The determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK

Secondary jobholding is a persistent phenomenon in both Germany and the UK. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male and female workers separately. Whereas the results vary across gender and countries, there is support for both main theoretical strands, i.e. for the ‘hours-constraints’ motive and, though less clear, for the ‘heterogeneous-jobs’ ...

Too tall to be smart? The relationship between height and cognitive abilities

Recent research suggests for height-wage premiums because of differentials in cognitive abilities. This note adds to the discussion and examines whether verbal and non-verbal competencies are related to height. The results indicate that height is nonlinearly associated to males’ abilities.

Do your brains help you out of unemployment?

This study examines the relationship between individuals’ cognitive abilities, unemployment propensity and unemployment entry or exit. Cognitive skills only weakly affect unemployment propensity and contribute little to individual heterogeneity. They, however, help employed males to stay out of unemployment.

Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between religious involvement and attitudinal (importance of helping others and of being socially active) and behavioral components of prosociality (volunteering, charitable giving, and blood donations) in Germany. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical analyses are based on representative, longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic ...